Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential tourists see a country clouded by tear gas and moral ambiguities and are choosing to stay away. Tourism since April is 24% lower than in the same quarter last year. Hundreds of charter flights have been scrubbed and the Nabucco extravaganza canceled; hotels stand half empty. If the trend continues, Israel could lose $300 million this year of the $1.5 billion it earns from tourism...
Noting that Illinois has not backed a Democrat for President since 1964, former presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon predicted his home state will buck the trend and back Dukakis in 1988. "I think we're going to win," he said, adding that the winning formula would be "a combination of things: Dukakis plus George Bush...
...West Germany's, to 1.81 marks. That still leaves it 48% below its peak 3 1/2 years ago. So far, the U.S. has made no significant effort to halt the rise. But while the slightly stronger dollar has some benefits, like reducing inflation, a prolonged upward trend could eventually reverse America's trade progress and drag down economic growth. Declares Daniel Laufenberg, senior economist for IDS, a financial-services firm: "A stronger dollar endangers American competitiveness and jobs. In the long term, the dollar has to go down...
...momentum began to grow. The banks of eight European countries -- West Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Belgium -- finally intervened by unloading some of their stocks of the currency. But the dollar kept climbing because the two largest countries -- the U.S. and Japan -- refused to resist the trend...
...find remote fishing spots. They are among some 500 weekend rail riders on Hopkins' home computer and part of the 2,000-member association, which also publishes a newsletter. Not surprisingly, the railroads are appalled. In January the Association of American Railroads labeled the hobbyists part of a "dangerous trend." They cite 1987 "trespassing" statistics that report 582 deaths and 673 serious injuries...